Phan Minh Châu

Phan Minh Châu was a resident of Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. She was the mother of Võ Trung Nhân, a boy who was born with only one leg, one eye, and mental retardation. On 1 January 1968, US Army troops entered her village, and Private Chris Taylor found Chau and her son hiding in their hut. Angry at Nhan for smiling as he yelled at him, unaware of his anger, Taylor shot around his feet to taunt him. Another soldier, Bunny Jones, angrily beat Nhan to death with the butt of his rifle as revenge for the deaths of soldiers Sal Italiano and Sandy Mitchum, and he claimed that Chau was the leader of the Viet Cong in the village.